David Vann

A Mile Down

The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea

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Produktbeschreibung

A harrowing--and heartbreaking--true story of one ordinary man's misadventures at sea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hachette Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 144mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781560257103
• ISBN-10: 1560257105
• Artikelnr.: 21403731

Autorenporträt

David Vann's short stories have been published in the Atlantic and various national literary quarterlies and have won numerous contests and awards. He was a Jones Lecturer and Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and earned his MFA from Cornell. He also holds a U.S. Coast Guard 200-ton Master's License and has sailed more than forty thousand miles offshore.

Rezensionen

You gaze entranced as his destiny unfolds...Vann pulls off the most gripping passage of sea-catastrophe writing I have read outside Conrad, a chest-tightening, concretely detailed, cold, sickening and cumulatively desperate depiction of life turning murderous. Spectator